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Friday, October 31, 2008

Today marks the 10 Year anniversary of Memphis, TN hardcore band BURY THE LIVING , who formed on Halloween in 1998! BTL have gone through extensive line up changes over the years and long periods of Inactivity, the most recent being after their 2006European tour. They played briefly at the start of the year- doing a near " tour" of venues in Memphis one week,but are happy to report they are rehearsing again and hoping to record a new Self-released 7" EP shortly, to be followed by some touring outside of Memphis.

Their Prank debut, "All The News That's Fit to Scream" We're especially proud of in it's direct political attack, in a era of hardcore that largely sidestepped that. Like all the memphis bands, BTL is a unique cast of characters from One time Semi-pro wrestler Singer Pat to Drummer Ceylon who is well known for his committment to Activism and brings that to the band, as well as musicianship of his long time band PEZZ and current band Akasha who both share members with BTL.

Thursday, October 30, 2008

PRANK will be at the KZSC Radio (UC Santa Cruz Community Radio) fall record Swap on November 15th in Santa Cruz. We will be bringing a Box of Prank and distro stuff as well as rare and not so rare records of all Genres.

The sale is located at the Merrill College Cultural Center on the UCSC campus, and "there will be balloons and signs leading from the base of campus to the event." These are usually fun to come and dig, and KZSC sells off excess from it's library for 25 cents a record!

Doors open at 10 AM and ADMISSION IS FREE! The sale lasts until around 3 PM when dealers start to pack up. This sale is always is unpredicatble, but if you're in the Santa Cruz / San Jose are, worth coming to check it out!

You can also check out a live track by DSB on the new-ish DVD on Alternative Tentacles.

the ( cancelled) DSB west coast dates with Peligro Social are back on, now joined Swedish Trashers SISTA SEKUNDEN***:ate breaking news*** PELIGOR SOCIAL Have split up! BUmmer! They were one of prank's local favorites- still malke it out to see SISTA SEKUNDEN! Should be great!

"AVSKUM are one of those quintessential bands that come to mind when talking about well-played classic Swedish hardcore and the most amazing thing is that they have been consistently releasing solid material since before the average PE reader was born! Eighteen tracks of blasting d-beat punk with occasional DISCHARGE riff and the tightness and ferocity that can only come with experience. The intensity is totally backed up by excellent recording that flies in the face of the current trend of returning to lo-fi, bathroom quality garbage that sucked back in 1983 and is inexcusable today. AVSKUM’s lyrics are written in both English and Swedish are all politically motivated against the fucked up fucking system and all the other assholes in the world. Uppror Underifän is loud, angry, pissed off and posses all the hallmarks of a great hardcore punk releases. Definitely in the top five percent of their graduating class! (Dan) - Profane Existence #58

Absolutely brilliant new CD (also available on LP) from this long standing Swedish band. 16 songs of pure adrenalin bursting forth, that captures them at their very best and easily one of the best releases in this genre. A fantastic mixture of DISCHARGE, MOTORHEAD and any good classic Swedish band you could think of. While harsh and heavy, each song evokes the listener to stay tuned and that's where you get reeled in and you are not going to get away so easy. With songs like these who would want to. Plenty of great riffage and thumping beats, exploding vocals and everything you would hope for in a great CD. The artwork/layout captures the mood. Although most of the lyrics are in Swedish, there is a strong anti cop, anti capatalist vibe going down. You know you need it. Direct Hit Web blog, Ireland

AVSKUM-Uppror Underifrån (Prank, CD)A molotov mix of perfected Swede-core and lyrical anger—Avskum are back, once again, to blast through the dreck. They’ve honed it down to the essence—blazing riffs driven by rumbling bass and crashing drums. Three of the songs are in English, the rest in Swedish and it’s not too tough to ascertain that these guys are quite pissed about the state of the world—I don’t even need to look up “Masskonsumtions Helevetet” to know where they’re coming from. One little wrinkle that stood out was the undistorted riff that begins “The Massacre In Fallujah,” before the burn kicks in. Incidentally,http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif that’s http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifabout an American obliteration of an Iraqi village. My advice? Plant yourself between the speakers and prepare for the bombardment. (PO Box 410892, SF, CA 94141-0892, www.prankrecords.com) Suburban Voice on-line